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unusual facts about Regular polygon


Regular polygon

The symmetry group of an n-sided regular polygon is dihedral group Dn (of order 2n): D2, 4D4, ...


Combinatorial class

For instance, the triangulations of regular polygons (with size given by the number of sides of the polygon, and a fixed choice of polygon to triangulate for each size) and the set of unrooted binary plane trees (up to graph isomorphism, with a fixed ordering of the leaves, and with size given by the number of leaves) are both counted by the Catalan numbers, so they form isomorphic combinatorial classes.

Semiregular polyhedron

In its original definition, it is a polyhedron with regular faces and a symmetry group which is transitive on its vertices, which is more commonly referred to today as a uniform polyhedron (this follows from Thorold Gosset's 1900 definition of the more general semiregular polytope).


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